I'm really not doing business

Chapter 221 If this road works, it will work
Wang Chonggu returned home from the side hall of the Wenhua Palace, and sat in the main hall with his brows furrowed, a little lost in thought.

"Father, didn't His Majesty blame you?" Wang Qian was very worried about the accident this time, and he waited until his father came back anxiously, and immediately went to ask.

Wang Chonggu ignored his son's inquiry and was still in a trance, thinking about a question.

"Father?"

"Son, do you think His Majesty knew from the very beginning that the price of worsted wool would skyrocket?" Wang Chonggu asked a terrible question. Wool will definitely become what it is now.

Your Majesty's discussion of this issue begins with the use value of worsted woolen cloth.

Worsted woolen is a kind of rare fabric, and like satin, it is a top-level luxury item. It is doomed to be rare even if the official woolen factory only has [-] pieces a year, and it is also highly pigmented, bright in color, Wool is slender, comfortable to wear, and the garments made of wool are crisp, not easy to wrinkle, wear-resistant, excellent in warmth retention, and many other advantages.

Symbols of wealth and status are most likely to be sought after by people, and it becomes natural for the powerful to pursue them.

In the beginning, whether worsted woolen cloth was directly prohibited from being sold like satin, Wang Chonggu asked His Majesty what he meant, and His Majesty said that the priority was to ensure the use of the palace, and that it was allowed to be used by the people. In terms of etiquette, worsted woolen cloth was not listed as an overreach .

There are not many worsted woolen fabrics in this house, so I am ashamed to say that I am powerful?
Under the theory of supply and demand, it has become inevitable for worsted wool to be neglected in use value and to be exaggerated by speculators. From fashion to frenzy will become an inevitability, and His Majesty seems to be condoning this exaggeration on purpose. His behavior made Wang Chonggu shudder.

If His Majesty had thought of today, it would be really terrifying.

"Father, what do you mean is that His Majesty deliberately set this up?" Wang Qian said in horror, swallowing his throat.

"I must have thought too much." Wang Chonggu waved his hand feebly. He didn't want to maliciously guess the Holy Will, but according to past experience, His Majesty might have expected the price of worsted wool.

Wang Chonggu’s guess is correct. Zhu Yijun discussed with Zhang Juzheng why the sale of satin was banned when worsted wool appeared, and even folk use was regarded as arrogance. Even so, worsted wool still flowed into the market.

On December 28, the fourth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng and the little emperor had a fierce quarrel in the side hall of Wenhua Hall. The content of the quarrel was related to the price of worsted wool.

Zhang Juzheng's opinion is to restrict it immediately, completely prohibit its flow into the market, and use it by the people as arrogance. In this way, there will be no poisonous poison of strange goods. I have tried my best.

Zhu Yijun disagreed with Zhang Juzheng's idea, insisted on his own opinion, and wanted to continue selling in this way in order to seek huge profits and amass profits, find out the silver buried in the pigsty by the landlords and lords, let these silver enter the market circulation, and adjust Ming's Money shortage.

The money shortage of the Ming Dynasty, or the Central Plains Dynasty, is a fact that has existed widely since ancient times.

Since the Han Dynasty, a large number of flying coins and iron coins have been used. In the Song Dynasty, even if 50 billion pieces of copper and iron coins were cast a year in the Song Dynasty, they still could not meet the needs of regular circulation. Jiaozi, when he arrived in Huyuan, in order to solve the money shortage, the treasure banknotes officially appeared, and then quickly went bankrupt.

For precious banknotes, a piece of paper can represent a tael of silver. This is completely plundering, so the price of precious banknotes has been falling since the issuance. , Continue to issue, even so, every time Hu Yuan's emperor uses this clumsy method, he can cheat money.

During the Hongwu period, the banknotes of the Ming Dynasty had become waste paper, but the Ming Dynasty still issued the banknotes for 200 years firmly. It was impossible to make money, and there was no gold, silver and copper. How to make money.

After the Daming banknotes became waste paper, the currency of Daming was actually Yanyin. However, with the complete destruction of the Yanyin system by the two relatives of Xiaozong Dynasty, the value of Yanyin dropped sharply. Even so, Yanyin is still used. Value and exchange value are the substantial banknotes of Ming Dynasty.

In the eyes of the little emperor, it is inevitable to dig out their silver and enter the world to circulate their silver. If they go to search their homes, they can only ruin their fortunes, but they can be cheated. They are in debt.

Worsted wool has become a very good tool for collecting silver.

It is still too slow to just inflow silver from overseas, and mines still have to be opened, and the human-shaped silver mines with great potential will be opened.

Zhang Juzheng finally chose to compromise and agreed to His Majesty's mining method, because Daming really needed silver. Circulating, instead of piling up under the pigsty, is a problem that Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant, must face.

Your Majesty's methods are disgraceful, but useful.

"They ransacked my house and said I was tyrannical. In this way, everyone will be well, and I will keep my reputation. If I want to be powerful, I don't have to be afraid of Tianwei and dare not do things." Zhu Yijun stood up and said with a smile: "Sir, follow us Watch for fun?"

"Look at the excitement?" Zhang Juzheng discovered that the little emperor really likes to watch the excitement.

Zhu Yijun smiled and said, "Sir, come with me."

Worsted wool needs to be traded in a trading place, and the wealthy merchants of Daming chose this place in Yanxing Building. On the way to watch the fun, Zhu Yijun also asked Zhang Hong to call Wang Chonggu to come and watch the fun together.

When Wang Chonggu stood in front of the gate of Yanxing Tower, he realized clearly that it was not him or Wang Qian who was making the deal, but the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

The layout of Yanxing Building is different from other places. Once entering the building, there is a lot of people and it is very lively. You can see a long counter. Inside the counter, there are more than a dozen young men, constantly running around.

In the transaction of worsted wool, the means of identification that needs to be verified by the counter is weighing, mainly to check its weight. After the identification, each foot of cloth must be printed on a piece of white paper for identification. Only the paper Only when the seals on the top and the cloth can match are the worsted wool that can be traded in Yanxinglou.

Behind the counter, there is a board hanging on which is the asking price, selling price and the quantity to be sold. If you want to sell worsted wool, you can register at the counter, and then list the number on the appraisal certificate, and the listed price is the seller's selling price.

All these services are not free, they will charge [-]/[-] of the transaction amount, this service fee will maintain the operation of Yanxing Building, and it is also a tax of the imperial court, which is divided into half and half of the national funds.

This is completely Huangzhuang's business, why should we share the state funds?If the emperor controls more silver, doesn't he have more power?Wouldn't this kind of tax and court share break one's own leg?Simply stupid!

Zhu Yijun was just cheering up Daming.

He can collect the silver into his own hands, but he cannot send the silver to the hands of the poor coolies. Under the political correctness of Zhang Juzheng's portrayal of the powerless and powerful and saving the head of Guizhou, the imperial court can send the silver to the poor through spectacle and great construction. In the hands of the coolies of the people, it is necessary to give money to the state treasury.

Wang Chonggu looked at the busy counter and felt dizzy. Sure enough, as he expected, the emperor was the biggest trader, because the biggest consumer of worsted wool in the official woolen factory was His Majesty himself. Worsted wool is the most.

Zhu Yijun brought Zhang Juzheng and Wang Chonggu to the private room on the second floor.

The second floor of Yanxing Building has also been remodeled. A Jiangnan famous prostitute was playing and singing. If Luo Bingliang were here, he would have discovered that this woman was the oiran on Sun Keyi's boat. Sun Keyi sent this oiran to the capital to make money.

The Clothes Singing Fair is actually an auction. Since the ninth year of Emperor Wude in Tang Dynasty, the auction extended from the temple to deal with the belongings of deceased monks has become more and more perfect. In the second year of Song Huizong Chongning, the Zen Garden Qingrui The process of the singing fair, such as posting posters, exhibition of pre-sale goods, estimation of singing, drawing points, etc., has been very complete.

And Zhu Yijun took Zhang Juzheng and Wang Chonggu to see the excitement, which was the clothing show, or bulk trade, the second floor sold not the bulk goods on the first floor, but sold by horses.

The sound of silk and bamboo gradually stopped, and everyone began to take their seats. The oiran stood up, came to the front of the stage, and said with a smile: "Everyone, everyone gathered here today is a predestined person. There are all kinds of rare treasures in the world for you to taste, the most precious thing today is the 137-jin ambergris, but the worsted wool is the most eye-catching.”

"How many large cloths are there in Yanxing Building?"

The oiran walked up to a card, pulled off the red silk cloth to reveal the number inside, and said with a smile, "One thousand and five hundred horses."

After the announcement of this number, everyone exclaimed. You must know that even the wool that flows into the market, there are very few whole horses. They are all calculated by feet, but this one is fifty feet, 61 horses. According to the price of eight taels, the price is 5000 taels, not counting other rare treasures, just like the big cloth, it has already exceeded Qi Jiguang's military expenditure for a year of training in Jizhen.

Wang Chonggu asked in a low voice with some doubts: "Your Majesty, I am puzzled, why did Your Majesty release so many at once?"

Wang Qian held [-] horses and smashed them on the plate, but the emperor directly took out [-] horses, which would definitely have an impact on the price.

Zhu Yijun said with certainty: "I'm throwing money at the plate, and I hope that the powerful and powerful of Daming will wake up. There will be no pies in the sky, nor will there be wealth that splashes the sky. With so much money, even if it is to build handmade A workshop is better than buying these."

After all, Zhang Juzheng sighed and said: "Your Majesty, is it possible that they actually know that this is a big gamble, but they are just betting that they will not be the last one to take over? It's like in a casino, thinking that they will not be the unlucky one .”

"Then we can't help it, we're all screwed, and they still refuse to wake up." Zhu Yijun shook his head and said.

The oiran waited until the voices of the people gradually quieted down, and then showed a very peaceful smile, and said, "Even if you didn't go to the grassland to do business, I heard from others that the aquatic plants on the grassland are not luxuriant, and they are constantly conquering each other, so we must maintain A certain number of horses are used to attack each other."

"Someone wants to ask, why not herd sheep in the hinterland of Ming Dynasty to obtain wool? Because there is not enough land in the hinterland of Ming Dynasty, let alone raising sheep."

"This is doomed. The amount of wool and worsted wool is limited and very small. Even the nobles in the palace cannot use them as they like."

The oiran is telling stories according to the script, talking about scarcity. There are only so many aquatic plants, so much wool, and so much worsted wool. The more scarce, the more precious.

Zhu Yijun sat on the grand teacher's chair, and suddenly said loudly: "Chang Yi, you can't graze, but you can also grow grass to raise sheep. Why is the number limited?"

The oiran got angry for a while, who is making things up!
But in the private room, no one can be seen at all, but this question must be answered.

"One side of the soil and water raises one side of people, and one side of lambs. The fur of the sheep raised in the hinterland can only be used for woolen spinning, not for worsted spinning. Even the wool from the grassland is used for worsted spinning. .” Hua Kui was annoyed, but she still answered the question with a smile on her face.

"I see." Zhu Yijun accepted the answer.

Antonio brought a kind of forage seed called corngrass. It is a high-quality forage. One mu of land can cut more than 1 catties of forage every year. However, this thing grows in the north and requires a lot of irrigation. , irrigation, this year is a big problem.

The oiran breathed a sigh of relief, and continued: "Big cloth is actually a kind of silk currency. No one can control its quantity. Even the official factory that weaves it depends on the face of God. If the number of sheep is reduced sharply, large cloth will be scarce; if the weather is good on the grassland, the number of sheep will be more, and the wool for weaving and spinning will increase, but the output of official factories will be so little."

"And Dabu is being widely recognized."

"From the moment the big cloth appeared, the price of the big cloth has risen from seven coins to eight taels of silver, and it will continue to rise. In addition to being used for making clothes, it can also be used for large transactions..."

The oiran is still blowing worsted wool, that is, big cloth.

And Zhu Yijun shook his head, the oiran was telling a story.

Talk about a spring and autumn dream that everyone can get rich, and confuse the powerful people sitting in the audience to enter the arena and fight.

"Sir, you don't lie to me." Zhu Yijun looked at the people outside the box, their eyes had become eager. When the price of wool soared, everyone was blinded by huge profits, like a red-eyed gamble. He always thinks he is the one who wins.

The official wool factory is already an extremely lucrative business, but its profit margin is only [-]%, but it only took ten days to increase from [-] yuan per foot to [-] yuan per foot. If you invest money in it, you only need It can be doubled tenfold in ten days. What kind of frightening wealth myth is this?

"Now, start bidding, 500 taels per piece of cloth." The oiran finally finished telling the story and started the bidding session. A piece of cloth fifty feet, the starting price is ten silvers per foot, which is much more expensive than those sold outside, but here It is sold by horses, not feet, which is destined to be higher than the outside price.

The gentry are betting that prices will soar.

"520 taels, I want [-]!" A man with a slightly richer figure stood up and shouted with a ferocious expression.

The crazy bidding started. Zhu Yijun looked at this scene and saw the crazy appearance of those people, so he could only shake his head. He actually arranged a few entrustments. , just posting.

But the nursery arranged by the little emperor didn't work at all, and there was no need to warm up this scene.

82 bolts of worsted cloth were sold for 11 taels of silver, which completely exceeded Zhu Yijun's expectations, with an average of more than 11 taels of silver per foot. Over [-] taels.

The subsequent auctions became boring. Ambergris is not for sale, but to show Yan Xinglou's ability to see the sky. This piece of ambergris will be processed and sold in Huangzhuang at a price of two or fifty silver. Zhu Yijun also bought a good thing.

Qiu Ying's "Surfing the River During the Qingming Festival" is a picture that Qiu Ying imitated the painting structure of Zhang Zeduan's Qingming Shanghe painting, and took Suzhou City of the Ming Dynasty as the model. The suburbs - Hongqiao - outside the city - inside the city, and Qiu Ying added palace For the garden part, Zhu Yijun spent 500 taels of silver to bid for this object.

Zhang Zeduan's "Surfing the River During the Qingming Festival" was stored in the internal funds. During the Jiajing period, Yan Song obtained the original copy. After Yan Song's downfall, his home was confiscated and he entered the palace. Zhu Yijun even went to see the original.

The oiran began to toast one by one, thanking the nobles for their sponsorship, she smiled very sincerely, from the bottom of her heart, this time the auction, the oiran earned enough money to redeem herself in one go.

Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng communicated about the official post road of Daningwei. The post road from Daningwei to the capital needs to be fully hardened, and in order to transport goods more conveniently, Zhu Yijun believes that a concrete sleeper can be built , railroad tracks for horse-drawn carriages.

Horse-drawn carriage tracks are not a rare thing, they were called Chidao in the Qin Dynasty.

The reason why such a road was built is naturally for military needs, but also for economic needs. The expansion of the official wool factory has increased the amount of white clay used, and the wool of the native tribes also needs this road to be transported to the capital.

"The wooden track is not durable, it is easy to break, and it cannot be repaired very long. In addition to the influence of the terrain, it is only a few miles long, that is, from Xishan to Gyeonggi, this time from the capital of the Ming Dynasty to the Daningwei. , let Guo Chaobin, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, supervise it." Zhu Yijun decided to repair it after much deliberation.

This kind of road is very expensive, but expensive is not the shortcoming of the road, it is because Daming is too shy to repair it. To Haoyou who sponsor.

"If you want to distribute silver to the small people, to the craftsmen, to the potters, blacksmiths, limesmiths, and firewood bearers, then if this road leading to Liaodong can run through all the lines, it will be the Ming Dynasty. The greatest blessing." Zhu Yijun once again clarified the purpose of building this road, exploring the logic of Ming's redistribution, and creating a class that embraced the New Deal.

"If this road works, it will work." Zhu Yijun finally said a very strange sentence. This road is naturally the Beijing-Liao Chi Road, and it is also the Da Ming's New Deal.

"The World Is Trapped in Mergers and Rescue the Hooligans" is Wang Chong's memorial, which Zhu Yijun highly agrees with.

Zhu Yijun's methods are cruel and ruthless.

The oiran quickly offered a toast to Zhu Yijun's private room, but when she entered, it was already empty. Zhu Yijun left naturally after watching the excitement and talking about things. As for the oiran, if we meet, Feng Bao should He was thrown to Yongsheng Woolen Factory for resettlement.

No need to be so troublesome, just disappear.

On New Year's Eve, Zhu Yijun met Chen Siliu, who was Chen Siliu in the story Wang Chonggu told in his [-]-word memorial.

Chen Siliu is 22 years old. He is not tall, that is, he is about the same height as the 15-year-old little emperor. He is very thin and dark-skinned. When he saw the emperor, he knelt on the ground and did not dare to get up. He got up, sat on the stool, and then stammered out what he wanted to say clearly.

The mining of the Xishan Coal Mine is very laborious. It needs to go down into the well. The depth of the well exceeds [-] feet. The mine is also twenty feet deep, mine accidents happen from time to time, water seepage, collapse, explosions are also common, Chen Siliu has no idea why His Majesty the Emperor received him.

But Chen Siliu was able to answer the questions His Majesty asked, how many people His Majesty asked, whether he had found a wife, how many children he had, whether he made new clothes with two feet of cloth during the Chinese New Year, etc. These were all common questions. And Chen Siliu answered truthfully, not daring to deceive anyone.

Chen Siliu's story is the core story of "Bailed Hooligans", and Chen Siliu said with a smile that when he cut five catties of meat for the New Year this year, both Zhu Yijun and Chen Siliu laughed brightly.

After Chen Siliu left, he met farmers from all over the world, including one of the landless farmers that Wang Chonggu resettled in the Northwest, Daning Weixin Tunnel farmers, Shaanxi farming farmers, etc. Zhu Yijun asked them about farming. However, the born noble man was very eloquent about farming, which surprised all the farmers.

After the farmers left, it was the generals and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who came from Nine Sides and the Beijing Camp. These generals and soldiers talked about their lives in detail. Guishou, and the soldiers in Bianfang Junzhen mainly talked about the hardships of life.

Thanks to the in-kind military pay promoted by Wang Guoguang, the border guards finally stopped fighting hungry. Even if the salary was not enough, they could grow some sweet potatoes for a living. If they could eat, they could survive. When Qi Jiguang met the saint for the first time, what he said, and the soldiers were very grateful for the salary in kind. They had to eat first before they could concentrate on fighting.

After the Shubian general and the soldiers left, Zhu Yijun saw the foreign officials for the last time.

This year's foreign official is Shi Maohua, the governor of Shaanxi. Shi Maohua strongly expressed his good vision for reintroduction, and expressed his worries about not reinstating. Less food and more soldiers, and years of severe drought must lead to civil unrest.

Zhu Yijun made it clear that it is necessary to repeat the set, but now is not the time.

Shi Maohua asked to go to Baoqisi to see, not to see where the emperor lived, but to see sweet potatoes, to be precise, potatoes. Shaanxi is not suitable for growing sweet potatoes, but it is very suitable for growing potatoes. Shi Maohua is grateful for His Majesty's marriage to Nongsang, There was no snow in Shaanxi last winter, and this spring has been cold and severe, and there has been a severe drought for thousands of miles. If it hadn't been for a few potatoes, there would have been a big mess.

After seeing Bao Qisi, Shi Maohua finally bid farewell to His Majesty with satisfaction.

After seeing the craftsmen, farmers, soldiers, and foreign officials, Zhu Yijun took his seven windows to the Taimiao Temple to worship his ancestors, and gave a report on what he had done this year.

The biggest thing done was to liquidate the clan party headed by Zhang Siwei and prevent the further deterioration of the northwestern feudalization.

Zhu Yijun babbled on and on for a long time, especially the book "A Book of Placement of Hooligans". The emperor even asked someone to copy a copy and burned it to his ancestors.

On the last day of the fourth year of Wanli, the Minister of Honglu Temple sent a memorial to the palace to ask for his official post.

Zhu Yijun took this memorial and said helplessly: "Didn't Da Sikou send a letter to the northwest to ask San Niangzi to send his cousin and child back? San Niangzi also agreed, and San Niangzi wants to break the appointment?"

"Bianguan Zouwen, I have already entered the customs, and I will be able to arrive in Beijing after the next year." Zhang Hong replied hastily.

"Let's discuss it after the new year." Zhu Yijun was still unwilling to deal with Chen Xuexue. After all, Chen Xuexue was really easy to use, and we can talk about it after the New Year. Zhu Yijun took out the procrastination formula to deal with it.

But obviously, the Kodao officials did not intend to delay the emperor. On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, just after the rest, the memorials of the Kodao officials drifted into the cabinet like snowflakes.

Zhang Juzheng posted a floating ticket in the memorandum, thinking that this matter can be punished to a certain extent, in order to calm public opinion, it is appropriate to fine the salary for half a year.

However, Zhu Yijun rejected Zhang Juzheng's proposal, and still insisted on his own opinion. He did not take any measures, and he also refused to allow Chen Xuexue's official announcement, and took Chen Xuexue's concubine to run away with his son, thinking that he was going home to visit relatives, and insisted on his own opinion.

Zhang Juzheng wanted to make a compromise and ease this contradiction, but Zhu Yijun refused to give up even one step, and wanted to intensify this contradiction.

Originally, according to Zhu Yijun's prediction, the eunuchs were supposed to go to the palace and show the emperor a little bit of strength. Zhu Yijun waited in full force, but in the end he didn't wait for the courtiers to go to the palace. The matter of Chen Xuexue seemed to have become a trivial matter. Focusing on the focus, he immediately looked at the worsted wool whose price had risen to 11 taels of silver per foot.

As soon as the worsted woolen market opened, the price began to soar again to a high of 11 taels at a terrifying speed.

The request of the speech officials coincided with Zhang Juzheng's idea. They all asked the emperor to set the worsted woolen as the exclusive use of the royal family and forbid the trading of worsted woolen. At the beginning of accumulation, if the cover is covered so that it can be accumulated, then the ministers of Xingli must cater to Shang's wishes to carve out the wealth of the people.This is why the hearts of the people are resentful, and the world is poor and poor.

Even if the emperor likes to collect money, the ministers who are prosperous will strip the people's wealth, and the people will be resentful, the world will be poor, and the emperor will lose the hearts of the people.

This is indeed the case.

　Ask for a monthly ticket, woo! ! ! !

　　
　
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